We arrived to find Rono Lo and Phil Ivey looking down at a board of with about 1.5 million already in the middle. Lo checked over to Ivey and Ivey announced an all in bet. Lo sat pondering a call for his tournament life for well over a minute before deciding to release his cards.
With this hit, Lo is down to about 1.35 million in chips. Ivey, who is hot off of his 10th WSOP bracelet win, is now up to about 4.07 million in chips.
Niklas Heinecker checked to Isaac Haxton on a board of , and he fired out 220,000. The German tank-called, bringing the pot to around 800,000, and the river was a fourth club - the .
Heinecker quickly checked, and Haxton tossed out 380,000. Heinecker folded, and his fellow high-stakes online cash game player was awarded the pot.
Jason Mercier raised to 40,000 from the cutoff and Doug Polk called from the button. Daniel Colman three-bet from the small blind to 150,000 and Guy Laliberté called in the big blind.
The action was back on Mercier who tanked for a bit before throwing out a four-bet to 435,000. Polk folded his cards and Colman tanked for a while before also letting go.
Laliberté tanked and picked up his cards high enough for everyone to see, as he eventually folded two jacks.
"Are you happy now?" Polk jokingly said to Colman. "We all lost because of you. We could've just seen a flop and hit some s***."
Tony Gregg burst out in laughter, Mercier raked in the pot and the atmosphere remains very jovial at this table.
We arrived to find Dan Smith all in for his last 948,000 on a flop of . With a substantial amount of chips already in the middle, Scott Seiver sat pondering a call.
"Ugh," lamented Seiver, leaning back in his chair and throwing his hands on his head.
Roughly two minutes passed while Seiver analyzed and attempted to come to a decision.
"Sorry guys," he said lowly to his table mates while he continued to think. After about two minutes, he opted to release his cards and Smith was awarded the pot.
Tobias Reinkemeier led out for 200,000 on a board of , and Doug Polk made the call. The completed the board, Reinkemeier fired out another 450,000, and Polk tank-called.
Reinkemeier rolled over for a pair of deuces, and Polk was awarded the pot with for trip kings.
Polk got a three-bet through the next hand, and he's now up to 3.8 million chips.
John Juanda raised to 47,000 from under the gun, and four players called - Philipp Gruissem (hijack), Talal Shakerchi (cutoff), Tom Hall (button), and Brian Rast (small blind).
The flop came , and the action checked to Hall, who fired out 150,000. Only Gruissem called.
The turn was the , the duo both checked, and the completed the board. Gruissem checked, Hall tossed out four canary T100,000 chips, and the German looked like he was about to muck. At the last moment he let go of his cards, and tossed in a lavender T250,000 chip.
Hall rapped the table and pushed his cards forward, signifying that he was beat, and Gruissem showed .
"It looked like you had another fold in you," David Sands told Gruissem.
On the flop, Stanley Choi was first to act against Phil Galfond. Choi fired a bet of 200,000, and Galfond went into the tank. Eventually, Galfond announced that he was all in.
Galfond had Choi well covered, and Choi had roughly 700,00 behind. Choi thought for about half a minute, then called, but saw the bad news when Galfond tabled the for bottom set. Choi held the .
The turn was the and that got Choi a bit excited. The river was the , and Choi missed. Galfond won the pot, and Choi was eliminated.
Rono Lo just raised to 120,000 and the action folded to Daniel Negreanu in the big blind. Negreanu three-bet to 320,000 and Lo snap-called the reraise.
The flop came down and Negreanu tossed out another 320,000. Lo looked back down at his cards, shook his head and folded.
"You want to see one time?" Negreanu asked as he kindly flashed .
Lo smiled, shook his head and left himself with 2.25 million chips.